THIRD ALBUM FROM LUCY DACUS ANNOUNCED ALONGSIDE THE RELEASE OF ITS LEAD SINGLE ‘HOT & HEAVY’

Lucy Dacus has announced her third album, ‘Home Video’, out June 25th on Matador, and has released lead single and video, ‘Hot & Heavy’. Dacus explains: “I thought I was writing ‘Hot & Heavy’ about an old friend, but I realized along the way that it was just about me outgrowing past versions of myself. […]
Having sustained my first ever moshpit injury at a Sonic Youth gig in the early 90’s at The Reading Festival, involving someone else’s Doc Marten boot, squelchy mud and my head, to seeing their last ever gig in Manchester, it’s fair to say Kim Gordon’s former band, Sonic Youth, have occupied a large portion of […]

ALBUM REVIEW: KIM GORDON – NO HOME RECORD

COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE ANNOUNCE ‘LOTTA SEA LICE’ LP RELEASED OCT – WATCH FIRST SINGLE VIDEO ‘OVER EVERYTHING’ NOW

Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, have joined forces to release on Friday 13th October (Marathon Artists/Matador/Milk! Recordings/Mom & Pop) a new album collaboration, Lotta Sea Lice. First single ‘Over Everything’, features dovetailing vocal lines and intricate, guitar stylings from the pair. The lyrics play out as a rambling dialogue as they compare notes about song-writing and inspiration – it was the […]
2016 proved to be a breakout year for Seattle wunderkind Will Toledo. Under the aegis of Car Seat Headrest, he signed to Matador and promptly released Teens Of Denial, which went on to become one of the most acclaimed albums of the year, with Uncut, Crack, Loud and Quiet, Time Out and Clash, among others, […]

CAR SEAT HEADREST ANNOUNCE UK SUMMER TOUR DATES

Album Review: Thurston Moore – The Best Day

Thurston Moore’s new album The Best Day sees the US singer back on more familiar territory after 2011’s acoustic album Demolished Thoughts.  Performed by a newly formed Thurston Moore Band and running at 8 tracks across 51 minutes (double LP on Vinyl) this is on first listening very much an “album” in the classic sense, […]
The supergroup: a lazy term for a generally dirty concept in rock music. It brings to mind egotistical, indulgent, short-term projects comprising disparate musicians operating on different wavelengths. But after 15 years and six full length albums, The New Pornographers have found a way to circumvent these problems, chiefly by only convening every few years. […]

Album Review: The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers

ALBUM REVIEW: SAVAGES – SILENCE YOURSELF

The return of punk and riots seemed inevitable when this government took over. Calmly listening to acoustic folk and uplifting indie while being financially squeezed and in constant fear of redundancy, simply doesn’t tally. If you still receive as much as £10 working tax credits per month, you should seriously consider spending it on this […]
Smoke Ring For My Halo was my favourite album of 2011, and though, in retrospect it’s now eclipsed by M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming and Slave Ambient by former bandmates the excellently named The War on Drugs, it remains an album I return to from time to time with real relish. What I like most […]

Album Review: Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze

NEWS: SAVAGES – HEAR NEW TRACK ‘SHE WILL’ TAKEN FROM DEBUT ALBUM

The first released track from Savages’ forthcoming album Silence Yourself available on 6th(UK)/7th(US) May 2013 from Matador Records. @savagesband http://www.popnoire.com http://www.savagesband.com http://www.matadorrecords.com http://www.facebook.com/savagestheband
Here is the new Cat Power new video for ‘Cherokee’, starring and directed by Chan Marshall (Cat Power), it’s the first music video to be taken from her new album, ‘Sun’. Shot in the Californian desert, it depicts a post-apocalyptic world in the near future where road gangs rule a lawless land. The video follows […]

VIDEO: CAT POWER – ‘CHEROKEE’